This is a program in Indiana where primary care providers learn about trauma-informed care. This means they understand how to recognize and respond to patients who have experienced trauma. The collaborative brings healthcare professionals together to share knowledge and best practices. Its goal is to improve patient outcomes by ensuring sensitive and appropriate care for trauma survivors.
This is a program in Indiana where primary care providers learn about trauma-informed care. This means they understand how to recognize and respond to patients who have experienced trauma. The collaborative brings healthcare professionals together to share knowledge and best practices. Its goal is to improve patient outcomes by ensuring sensitive and appropriate care for trauma survivors.
Hamilton County Community Clinical Linkages
Setting the Stage: Becoming Trauma-Informed
Developing projects that will encourage use of a trauma-focused lens in serving the residents of Hamilton County.
The Primary Care Trauma-Informed Learning Collaborative is a state-wide collaborative with an 11-month long Implementation Year. The in-person and virtual meetings are filled with trauma education, networking, connection with experts, and collaborative discussion.
The Indiana Department of Health leads the Primary Care Trauma-Informed Learning Collaborative. The Hamilton County Team is the first System of Care Team to be a part of the Learning Collaborative. Other teams involved come from individual medical centers, Federally Qualified Health Centers, and other physical health providers.
The Hamilton County Team is made up of A Healthier Hamilton County: Systems of Care, NobleACT, the Hamilton County Health Department, Child Care Answers, Hamilton Boone Madison Special Services, H.A.N.D., the Delaware Township Trustee’s Office, and Integrated Support & Facilitation.
The ultimate goal of the Hamilton County Team is to assist every human-serving agency in Hamilton County in using a trauma-informed lens when serving the residents of our county. This will be accomplished by sharing a Community Clinical Linkage, presenting a Trauma Language Booklet, and providing training on how to be trauma-informed.
Being trauma-informed creates an environment that does not cause further harm and instead fosters growth, resiliency, and healing. Being trauma-informed recognizes the widespread impacts of trauma. Since trauma lands differently on every person, a trauma-informed approach understands that trauma is common and assumes that an individual is more likely than not to have trauma in their history. Using a trauma-informed approach results in those you serve feeling safer, builds trust, promotes empowerment, and acknowledges diversity and individuality.
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